Sigismund (variants:

Sigmund In Germanic mythology, Sigmund ( , ) is a hero whose story is told in the Völsunga saga. He and his sister, Signý, are the children of Völsung and his wife Hljod. Sigmund is best known as the father of Sigurð the dragon-slayer, though Sigu ...

, Siegmund) is a German proper name, meaning "protection through victory", from

Old High German Old High German (OHG; ) is the earliest stage of the German language, conventionally identified as the period from around 500/750 to 1050. Rather than representing a single supra-regional form of German, Old High German encompasses the numerous ...

''sigu'' "victory" + ''munt'' "hand, protection".

Tacitus Publius Cornelius Tacitus, known simply as Tacitus ( , ; – ), was a Roman historian and politician. Tacitus is widely regarded as one of the greatest Roman historians by modern scholars. Tacitus’ two major historical works, ''Annals'' ( ...

latinises it ''

Segimundus Julius Segimundus was a nobleman of the Germanic peoples, Germanic Cherusci, a son of Segestes who was a close ally of the Roman Empire. They were followers of the Imperial cult of ancient Rome, imperial cult of Augustus. In this context, Segimund ...

''. There appears to be an older form of the High German word "Sieg" (victory): ''sigis'', obviously Gothic and an inferred Germanic form, and there is a younger form: ''sigi'', which is

Old Saxon Old Saxon (), also known as Old Low German (), was a Germanic language and the earliest recorded form of Low German (spoken nowadays in Northern Germany, the northeastern Netherlands, southern Denmark, the Americas and parts of Eastern Eur ...

''sigu'' (both from about 9th century). A 5th century Prince of Burgundy was known both as ''Sigismund'' and ''Sigimund'' (see Ernst Förstemann, ''Altdeutsche Personennamen'', 1906; Henning Kaufmann, ''Altdeutsche Personennamen'', Ergänzungsband, 1968). Its Hungarian equivalent is Zsigmond. A Lithuanian name

Žygimantas Žygimantas is a Lithuanian masculine given name. It is a two-stem name of Baltic origin consisting of the root and . (retrieved March 3, 2025) The Lithuanian word means a military march from one location to another, while the second part might ...

, meaning "wealth of (military) campaign", from

Lithuanian Lithuanian may refer to: * Something of, from, or related to Lithuania, a country in the Baltic region in northern Europe ** Lithuanian language ** Lithuanians, a Baltic ethnic group, native to Lithuania and the immediate geographical region ** L ...

''žygis'' "campaign, march" + ''manta'' "goods, wealth", has been a substitution of the name ''Sigismund'' in the Lithuanian language, from which it was adopted by the

Ruthenian language Ruthenian (see also #Nomenclature, other names) is an exonymic linguonym for a closely related group of East Slavic languages, East Slavic linguistic Variety (linguistics), varieties, particularly those spoken from the 15th to 18th centuries in ...

as Жыгімонт (such are the cases of

Sigismund Kęstutaitis Sigismund Kęstutaitis (, ; 136520 March 1440) was Grand Duke of Lithuania from 1432 to 1440. Sigismund was his baptismal name, while his pagan Lithuanian birth name is unknown. He was the son of Grand Duke Kęstutis and his wife Birutė. Aft ...

, Sigismund Korybut, Sigismund I the Old, Sigismund II Augustus). The Polish language, Polish spelling is Zygmunt, the Czech language, Czech variant is Zikmund, and the variant used in Slovak language, Slovak and Serbo-Croatian is Žigmund.

People

European rulers

* Saint Sigismund of Burgundy (died 523), King of the Burgundians * Sigismund I, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau (died 1405) * Sigismund I the Old King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania * Sigismund II August King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania * Sigismund III Vasa King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania, King of Sweden * Sigismund, Holy Roman Emperor (1368–1437), also King of Hungary and King of Bohemia *

(c. 1365–1440), Grand Duke of Lithuania * Sigismund Korybut (c. 1395-c. 1435), Lithuanian duke who participated in Hussite Wars * Sigismund II, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau (died after 1452) * Sigismund, Archduke of Austria (1427–1496), ruler of Further Austria * Sigismund of Bavaria (1439–1501), Duke of Bavaria * Sigismund von Herberstein (1486–1566), Carniolan diplomat, writer, historian and member of the Holy Roman Empire Imperial Council * Sigismund of Brandenburg (1538–1566), Prince-Archbishop of Magdeburg and Administrator of the Prince-Bishopric of Halberstadt * Sigismund Rákóczi (died 1608), briefly Prince of Transylvania * Sigismund Báthory (1572–1613), Prince of Transylvania * Sigismund Francis of Austria (1630–1665), ruler of Further Austria * Prince Sigismund of Prussia (1864-1866) * Prince Sigismund of Prussia (1896–1978) * Ishak Bey Kraloğlu or Sigismund of Bosnia (born in the 1450s?), son of King Stephen Thomas of Bosnia * John Sigismund, Elector of Brandenburg (1572–1618)

Others

* Sigismund Albicus (c. 1360–1427), Roman Catholic Archbishop of Prague * Sigismund Bachrich (1841–1913), Hungarian composer, violinist and violist * Sigismund Bacstrom (c. 1750-1805), German doctor, surgeon and scholar of alchemy * Sigismund Payne Best (1885–1978), British secret agent during the First and Second World Wars * Sigismund von Braun (1911–1998), German diplomat and Secretary of State * Sigismund Danielewicz (1847–1927), California trade union organizer and anarchist * Sigmund Freud (1856–1939), Austrian founder of psychoanalysis born Sigismund Schlomo Freud * Sigismund Gelenius (1497–1554), Greek scholar and humanist * Sigismund Goldwater (1873–1942), physician, hospital administrator, and New York City Commissioner of Health * Sigismund von Götzen (1576–1650), German diplomat and politician * Sigismund Ernst Hohenwart (1745–1825), Bishop of Linz * Sigismund Koelle (1820–1902), German missionary and pioneer scholar of African languages * Sigismund Ernst Richard Krone (1861–1917), German naturalist, zoologist, spelunker, archaeologist and researcher * Sigismund Mendl (1866–1945), British politician * Sigismund von Neukomm (1778–1858), Austrian composer and pianist * Sigismund Felix Freiherr von Ow-Felldorf (1855–1936), Bishop of Passau * Sigismund von Reitzenstein (1766–1847), first minister of state of the Grand Duchy of Baden * Sigismund von Schlichting (1829–1909), Prussian general and military theorist * Sigismund von Schrattenbach (1698–1771), Archbishop of Salzburg * Sigismund Streit (1687–1775), German merchant and art patron in Venice * Sigismund Zaremba (1861–1915), Polish composer * Sigismund Steinhauser (2005-), American far right internet personality and self proclaimed “Nordic Prussian German”

Fictional characters

* Sigismund, a Space Marines (Warhammer 40,000), Space Marine character from the Warhammer 40,000 novel series, ''The Horus Heresy (novels), The Horus Heresy'' * Sigismund Arbuthnot, the "mad maths master" in the Nigel Molesworth, Molesworth books * Sigismund Dijkstra, "The Witcher, the witcher" in the Andrzej Sapkowski books

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